None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid & readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise & self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving & ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, & features some of the author's most striking episodes & brilliant passages of description. ...

After selling his wife & daughter in a drunken stupor, Michael Henchard is left with a guilty conscience in place of his family.

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This is the classic tale of Michael Henchard, drunk on rum at a country fair, Henchard sells his wife for 5 guineas. Once sober & overcome with guilt, he vows not to drink again. When Mrs Henchard seeks out her husband in Casterbridge, years later, she finds him both wealthy & the Mayor. Accompanied by Elizabeth-Jane, whom Henchard presumes to be his own daughter, his family is restored to him, while he should be happy, beneath the surface the same impetuousness & temper are smouldering. When his wife dies, fate steps in cruelly, & Michael's final degradation & ruin are set in motion. This audiobook has 3 CDs & a runtime of 210 mins ...

Thomas is stuck in a glade, when the crank door opens the only thing Thomas can remember is his name, along with him are the gladers who are also trapped, what is this mysterious glade? Thomas will risk everything once the crank door opens. 19.7cm x 13cm x 2.3cm, Pages 371. ...

When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thign Thomas can remember is his first name. But he's not alone. He's surrounded by boys in the Glade, an encampment at the centre of a bizarre & terrible maze. No one knows why or how they came to be there, or what's happened to the world outside. All they know is every morning when the walls slide back they will risk everything to find out... ...

Details: The traditional hay meadows of Britain abound with visual delights. Hundreds of plant species, mesmeric mixtures
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The shocking true story of a brutal kidnapping high in the mountains of Kashmir that marked the beginning of modern terrorism. They have come in search of many things
- nirvana, exhilaration, a sense of self. But over the course of the next week, their holidays take a terrifying turn when they become entangled in a nail-biting hostage drama that will suck them into an alien world of jihad & Islamic fundamentalism. In the months that follow, their fates will become caught-up in a bloody struggle between India & Pakistan, fought out in the airless heights of Kashmir. With the world looking on, four of the captured travellers will vanish off the face of the earth, never to be seen again, creating one of the region's great mysteries. Written with access to diaries, letters, unprocessed film & personal recollections from those enmeshed in the drama, drawing on classified police reports & secret tape recordings of Indian government negotiations, as well as interviews with the jihadis themselves & excerpts from their journals, Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark's book is a real-life thriller, a startling but compelling story told from the perspective of all involved. The Meadow charts how the fates of two groups of young men from different hemispheres became inextricably entwined on the mountain trails they followed. It tells of the terrifying escape of one hostage, the heart-rending secret letters another wrote on birch bark & hid in his clothing as he contemplated his situation, & how, with a brutal beheading, the kidnappers took an irreversible step into the abyss. Packed with explosive revelations, The Meadow provides the first definitive answers as to what happened to the missing backpackers, revealing how the kidnapping of July 1995 changed the face of modern jihad, its architects going on to sow the seeds of a cold-hearted war against the West.
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Suffolk, 1914. Twelve-year-old Mattie & her little sister Evie lead an idyllic life in the countryside, exploring the meadows

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The shocking true story of a brutal kidnapping high in the mountains of Kashmir that marked the beginning of modern terrorism. In July 1995, ten Western backpackers take a trip of a lifetime. hey have come in search of many things ? nirvana, exhilaration, a sense of self. But over the course of the next week, their holidays take a terrifying turn when they become entangled in a nail-biting hostage drama that will suck them into an alien world of jihad & Islamic fundamentalism. In the months that follow, their fates will become caught-up in a bloody struggle between India & Pakistan, fought out in the airless heights of Kashmir. With the world looking on, four of the captured travellers will vanish off the face of the earth, never to be seen again, creating one of the regions great mysteries. Written with access to diaries, letters, unprocessed film & personal recollections from those enmeshed in the drama, drawing on classified police reports & secret tape recordings of Indian government negotiations, as well as interviews with the jihadis themselves & excerpts from their journals, Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clarks book is a real-life thriller, a startling but compelling story told from the perspective of all involved. The Meadow charts how the fates of two groups of young men from different hemispheres became inextricably entwined on the mountain trails they followed. It tells of the terrifying escape of one hostage, the heart-rending secret letters another wrote on birch bark & hid in his clothing as he contemplated his situation, & how, with a brutal beheading, the kidnappers took an irreversible step into the abyss. Packed with explosive revelations, The Meadow provides the first definitive answers as to what happened to the missing backpackers, revealing how the kidnapping of July 1995 changed the face of modern jihad, its architects going on to sow the seeds of a cold-hearted war against the West. ...

Together, John & Charlotte have lost an incredible 15-stone, & they are here to show you how to lose weight & feel your best
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